11360967

Predictive Search with Context Filtering

PublishedJune 14, 2022
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1. A device comprising: a processing system including at least one processor; and a computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by the processing system, cause the processing system to perform operations, the operations comprising: detecting a biometric condition of a user exceeding a threshold; determining a triggering object associated with the biometric condition, wherein the triggering object is captured via an acoustic sensor; applying the triggering object and at least one personal parameter to a plurality of context filters, wherein each of the plurality of context filters provides a relevance topic based upon the triggering object and the at least one personal parameter; generating a plurality of search terms based upon the relevance topics that are determined from the plurality of context filters; and presenting the plurality of search terms via a user interface.

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2. The device of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise: receiving a selection of one of the plurality of search terms; applying the one of the plurality of search terms that is selected to a search engine; and presenting results from the search engine in response to the one of the plurality of search terms via the user interface.

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3. The device of claim 2 , wherein the operations further comprise: retraining at least one of the plurality of context filters based upon the selection.

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4. The device of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise: detecting a confirmatory condition relating to the triggering object, wherein the applying is performed in response to the detecting of the confirmatory condition.

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5. The device of claim 4 , wherein the confirmatory condition comprises at least one of: a verbal reference to the triggering object; a text reference to the triggering object; a gesture; or a maintenance of the triggering object within a field of view.

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6. The device of claim 1 , wherein the biometric condition of the user comprises at least one of: a heart rate; a blood pressure; a breathing rate; a blood oxygen concentration; a facial expression; a pupil dilation; a voice pitch; a voice tone; an activity level; a skin conductance; a body temperature; an electrocardiogram pattern; an electroencephalography scan pattern; or a diffuse optical tomography scan pattern.

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7. The device of claim 1 , wherein the biometric condition of the user is determined via at least one of: a heart rate monitor; a blood pressure monitor; an electrocardiogram device; a microphone; a camera; a galvanic skin response device; an electroencephalography device; an event-related potential measurement device; or a diffuse optical tomography scanning device.

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8. The device of claim 1 , wherein the at least one personal parameter comprises at least one of: calendar information; location information; a communication history; a search history; a television viewing history; credit card transaction information; user preference information; or auditory information from a vicinity of the user.

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9. The device of claim 1 , wherein the determining the triggering object comprises: applying a sound salience model to a sound captured via the acoustic sensor.

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10. The device of claim 9 , wherein the operations further comprise: retraining the sound salience model based upon a user action pertaining to the plurality of search terms.

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11. The device of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of context filters comprises machine learning models to determine the relevance topics based upon the triggering object and the at least one personal parameter.

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12. The device of claim 11 , wherein the machine learning models are trained with training data associated with at least one of: the user; or a plurality of other users.

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13. The device of claim 11 , wherein each of the machine learning models is specific to a different theme of a plurality of themes.

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14. The device of claim 13 , wherein the plurality of themes includes: a family theme; a work theme; a sports theme; a relationship theme; a food theme; a shopping theme; or an entertainment theme.

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15. The device of claim 1 , wherein a subset of the plurality of context filters is configured to be a limited set of context filters, wherein the operations further comprise: selecting the limited set of context filters to be active context filters.

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16. The device of claim 15 , wherein the limited set of context filters is selected to be the active context filters based upon at least one of: a selection by the user; a time; or a location.

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17. The device of claim 1 , wherein the generating the plurality of search terms comprises, for each relevance topic, selecting auto-complete or auto-suggest terms associated with the relevance topic and the triggering object from a database.

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18. The device of claim 1 , wherein the acoustic sensor is integrated with a wearable device, wherein the plurality of search terms is presented via the user interface comprising a display of the wearable device.

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19. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by a processing system comprising at least one processor, cause the processing system to perform operations, the operations comprising: detecting a biometric condition of a user exceeding a threshold; determining a triggering object associated with the biometric condition, wherein the triggering object is captured via an acoustic sensor; applying the triggering object and at least one personal parameter to a plurality of context filters, wherein each of the plurality of context filters provides a relevance topic based upon the triggering object and the at least one personal parameter; generating a plurality of search terms based upon the relevance topics that are determined from the plurality of context filters; and presenting the plurality of search terms via a user interface.

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20. A method comprising: detecting, by a processing system including at least one processor, a biometric condition of a user exceeding a threshold; determining, by the processing system, a triggering object associated with the biometric condition, wherein the triggering object is captured via an acoustic sensor; applying, by the processing system, the triggering object and at least one personal parameter to a plurality of context filters, wherein each of the plurality of context filters provides a relevance topic based upon the triggering object and the at least one personal parameter; generating, by the processing system, a plurality of search terms based upon the relevance topics that are determined from the plurality of context filters; and presenting, by the processing system, the plurality of search terms via a user interface.

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June 14, 2022

Inventors

Timothy Innes
Eric Zavesky
Nigel Bradley
James Pratt

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